The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-25
FISHERY QUESTION.
Observation-Disclosures
Passed by tho United stn,os Sennte by o
Vote of forty.six to One-It Empowers
President Cleveland to Place au <.
Z Embargo on Canadian Fish.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 2l.-The Sen.
ate took up tho fishery question to-day.
MIR. Ingalls, criticized the report OF the
Committee on Foreign Relations, aud Mr..
Frye defended 1t, taking the ground that
II the President, under the authority con.
'erred upon him in the bill reported by
tho committee, should close tie por.s Of
the United States against Canadian fab.
tho entire trouble between the United
States and Canada would be at an end.
Senator Frye, in his remarks on the
dsheries question, grow very emphatic.
and III referring to recent law euac,ed hv
the Canadian Parliament empowering
every, petty customs official to arrest and
urag into port. examine. condemn and
conhsca!e any United States vessel found
within three miles fishing limit inquired:
"How can such law help resulting In
warr Mr.. Frye cloned his speech by
paying handsome tribute to President
Cleveland, characterizlpg him as an hon
est American citizen, with the destiny Of
American citizens at heart, and urged that
the bill reported by the Foreign Affairs
Commlttee DO adopted, in order that tho
President Of this free republic, who could
bo trusted implicitly, might have power to
act in this matter. - wa
Senator lngals followed Senator FRYE,
and finally reached tho conclusion that
the matter would have to be settled eitfer
by diplomacy or blood. He then called
upon tho Senator from Vermont (lr. Ed.
munds) for his explanation Of the pend.
ing bill.
Mr.. Edmunds. in reply to Mr.. Ingalls,
reviewed the several treaties, bearing up.
on tho questions a. iesue,. and maintain
cd that 1t WAS not question OF war Mt
this time, but that the whole matter de.
pended upon the Interpretation. or con-
struCtion Of tho treaty OF 1918. Bye and
bye, he added, should these matters not
adjust themselves properly ono or the
other country might decide to 20 to war.
Mr.. Ingalls, was dissatisfied with the
senator's reply to tho request to explain
the measure, and was disposed to ridicule
his reply. He (Mr. 1ngalls), agreed with
the Senator from Maine {h1r. Fryo). He
referred to England rs having always
been tho rufian nad the coward. "Her
history" he said, chad been one OF crime
against the United States, Ireland, Scot
lauu, wales, etc. i ggg Ht'7Fis7
DOES NOT WANT WAR.
Mr. Vest said: ut goes without saying
that il the rights Of the humblest citizen
Of the United States shall be attacked by
any foreign power, there would exist an
unanimity OF sentiment on the part OF the
people Of the United States that those
rights should bs protected, and that the
glory and honor OF the American people
should be preserved. As the Senator
from Alabama has very well said, there
will be no geographical or sectional differ.
ence il this issue is ever made, and it will
be found that the men who were arrayed
against each other in battle SO lately will
stand together as aolid phalanx In de-
Tense OF these rights and honor. But,
MIR. President, all this talk which runs
to meet any such thing as war,
with the other great English speaking
people OF the world, is to be deprecated.
It is enough for us to meet any such con-
tingency when it is absolutely impossible
to avert it. Wr ' - |j,fr
OF all the calamities that could beiall
either country, war between Great
Britain and the United States would be
the greatest. The pending bill, for which
he expected to vote, comes before the
Senate in the nature Of proposition for
commercial embargo. II not war, it was
the half sister Of war. Still he would
vote Tor the bill, because it contained a
provision that the President should have
discretionary power in the matter.
After some further discussion, an
amendment offered by Mr.. Vest, for the
appointment Of commissioner to take
testimony in regard to the losses and in.
juries inflicted by the British authorities
upon American fishermen, was loat. Yeas
II; nays q. The bill was then passed.
Yeas 46; nays l, Mr.. Riddleberger voting
in the negative. .is7.ao IL. .r.f.. i. :